voiceless

voice·less/ˈvɔɪsləs/adjective

voiceless is spelled V-O-I-C-E-L-E-S-S: 9 letters and 2 syllables (voice·less). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, voiceless means “Lacking a voice, without vocal sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in voiceless?

Letters	9: V-O-I-C-E-L-E-S-S
Syllables	2: voice·less
In writing	about once in every 2 million words; the 38,863rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is voiceless?

Voiceless appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form in the list.

voiceless0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce voiceless?

/ˈvɔɪsləs/

Voiceless has 2 syllables, split voice·less in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-voiceless.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does voiceless mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
2
Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
3
Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Voiceless in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	aphone (lacking a voice, without vocal sound), sourd (phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without…)
German	tonlos (lacking a voice, without vocal sound), stimmlos (phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without…)
Portuguese	mudo (lacking a voice, without vocal sound), surdo (phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without…)
Spanish	mudo (lacking a voice, without vocal sound), sordo (phonetics, of a consonant: spoken without…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does voiceless come from?

From voice + -less.